I'm about to start building an gym room in the basement. I'm planning to run a conduit to the TV location for HDMI & power cable. I'm having a hard time to find a decent diameter conduit at the local HD. The thickest I saw there is only 3/4" ID (those blue one that most use for wiring). Where can I find something like 1.5-2" ID flexible conduit? I'll probably need about <25' long.

If you can handle rigid conduit with sweeping bends you can save some money and use the gray PVC electrical conduit and HD stocks that. You want the big orange stuff you will pay dearly and you will need to find someone willing to sell it by the foot instead of the roll. I used to have some leftovers but I've used that up. No need to buy a roll in the near future.

If you call an electrical supply shop ask for Carlon resi-gard. There are some on-line vendors that sell small quantities.

I'll go to HD on Sunday and check again. In the worst case, I'll just use PVC pipe since I could modify it to a pretty straight run to the mechanical room (right next to it) where the A/V equipment will be hidden from the room.

2nd question, when you run the conduit through the stud, how do you bend it 90 degree so it face the drywall when using non flexible tube? Do you attach it to a 90 degree PVC elbow or something like that?

Plumbing elbows are too tight of a radius, they have sweeping turns next to the gray PVC conduit, stay away from the plumbing section, these will be over in electrical supply

For the wall you can actually have the conduit enter the side of an electrical box recessed in the wall no turns required. I don't think you could make a 90 degree turn inside a 2x4 wall with 1 1/2 inch rigid conduit.

I was thinking when mounting the TV flat on the wall, the power plug will get in the way as most of those plug are plugged straight to the outlet at 90 degree. On my other TVs, I just ran them inside the wall and out to the bottom outlet. But this one (where the TV wall) will have a full wall floor to ceiling mirror, so no bottom electrical outlet available. And if I put a regular outlet right behind the TV, is the power plug (at 90 degree) will get into the way to mount it flat? So I thought run the power cable via conduit (it's there for HDMI and other cables anyway) to the bare mechanical room would be the cleanest installation. I could be very wrong tho....

OK can someone help me... I have french doors and trying to think of what to do with mine. Saw these here but having trouble finding any details on this build thread... Of course I haven't looked at every page YET! ... I have scanned around a bit and find glass doors then next page is solid doors... Is there info in here on the door.

The secret sauce is that we made panels for the door, filled them with linacoustic. Then screwed them to the door from the other side, patched and painted the screw holes. I think we put something on the glass to make it uniformly black from the outside, I can't remember what.

Been busy finishing the basement home gym the last couple of months. But finally have some time to do a little update on the HT front.

I wall mounted an old 24" Dell monitor that I have laying around in the rack room. And programmed the new Harmony Ultimate remote (moved the original Harmony 900 for the gym room) so it'll just turn on the AVR, set the input to Popcorn Hour, for any update (movie library or firmware) work without turning on the projector.

I'm sorry the garage is one of the room that I didn't keep the color swap.... I think I got the paint from Benjamin Moore tho. I'm about to paint the lower half of the wall in a darker shade of grey to give it a bit more contrast too. And about to change out the 2 little light bulbs to some proper shop lights for my car detailing work.